Nail it

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

The latest product from Sally Hansen - a miracle nail gel which delivers up to 14 days of lasting colour and shine - hits the beauty shelves next Friday (September 12).

True Pilates for optimum health and vitality

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

Tried and tested over the past 80 years, Pilates is a complete exercise system that gives long-lasting and often spectacular results.

Pilates is designed to build core strength and correct body alignment while developing all the muscle groups in a harmonious manner, promoting fluid and controlled movement. Applied correctly, Pilates makes you look, feel, and move with greater ease. From teenagers to seniors, complete novices to top athletes, Pilates can help build or deepen your core strength while addressing specific goals, needs, or problem areas.

Irritable bowel relief at Care Cure Acupuncture

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be a debilitating intestinal disorder with symptoms ranging from cramping to flatulence, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea, and nausea.

Help for the whole family with Health and Herbs

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

Health and Herbs is an integrated health clinic and herbal dispensary situated on 9 Sea Road, (near the Jesuit Church) in Galway. It was founded by Dr Dilis Clare in 1999, who is the only GP in Ireland also qualified in herbal medicine.

Calm, confident, and in control: Brain training for birth

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

As a mother-to-be living in Ireland, you want to welcome your baby into the world in the safest, most gentle, way possible.

Improve your fitness at the Connemara Coast Hotel

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

Set on the Connemara Coast overlooking Galway Bay, the exclusive Coast Club Leisure Centre is the ideal place if you want to improve physical fitness, pamper yourself, or simply escape the pressures of modern life.

Support your natural healing ability with Healing Touch therapy

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

Classes in Healing Touch are again available at The Salthill Hotel, Galway, on September 20 to 21 and September 27 to 28 for Level 1.

The benefits of Thai massage

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

Therapeutic massage and Thai traditional massage provide relief to a multitude of specific health concerns. Therapeutic massage is part of an integrative care approach to many medical conditions.

A non-surgical anti-ageing facelift that works

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

Industry expert, Therapie Clinic, has introduced a revolutionary new treatment that will turn back the hands of time and make you look 10 years younger, without having to go under the surgeon’s knife .

The Laser360/iPixel is unlike anything else available in the market and leading dermatologists have deemed it to be the most effective and results-driven dermal technology in the world. The treatment is FDA-approved and is revolutionising the anti-ageing industry and changing how to approach the ageing process forever.

The Meyrick Hotel is calling all mums-to-be for some pampering

Thu, Sep 04, 2014

All mums-to-be can prepare to feel relaxed and enlightened as the Square Spa team host an exclusive customer evening, in association with Mama Mio on Thursday September 11.

The Lough Athalia railway bridge

Thu, Aug 28, 2014

The coming of the railway line from Dublin to Galway was one of the most significant events in the history of our city in the 19th century. It opened up the city and its environs in a commercial and in a tourist sense, making Galway accessible to the rest of the world. It was a major engineering achievement, regarded as the first indication of Galway’s future greatness both as a mercantile and manufacturing city.

‘The people who made us what we are today’

Thu, Aug 28, 2014

Imust admit that I have driven through Kiloughter village probably only half a dozen times in my life. It is located just off the Headford Road, at the start of the Curraghline, about four old miles from Eyre Square. Bordering the Ballydooley village, there cannot be more than a dozen houses there, but it is not an insignificant place.

Back to school cookies

Thu, Aug 28, 2014

I shall be making these lovely cookies to celebrate my two scholars placing their little patent leather shoes back on the bottom rungs of the ladder of academia. They are a perfect after school treat with a glass of milk or bribe for a patient teacher.

‘The people who made us what we are today’

Thu, Aug 28, 2014

I must admit that I have driven through Kiloughter village probably only half a dozen times in my life. It is located just off the Headford Road, at the start of the Curraghline, about four old miles from Eyre Square. Bordering the Ballydooley village, there cannot be more than a dozen houses there, but it is not an insignificant place. Thanks to a charming and beautifully written book by John Connell, Kiloughter has been brought forward as a mirror of old rural Ireland, which in the space of a few decades, has slipped away from us.*

Born August 8 1927, John does not begrudge the fact that today’s farmers have to have up-to-the-minute labour saving machinery; or that every household has machines for the day-to-day chores, and that village silences have been changed with cars and tractors passing through every hour of the day and night. He recalls, however, the village of his youth out of respect and admiration for the people whose ‘strength of character through all kinds of hardship, who walked the byways and cosáns, or pathways that we now walk in their footsteps, the people who made us what we are today.’

Beauty Lounge celebrates first year in business

Thu, Aug 28, 2014

The Beauty Lounge, Galway, is celebrating its first year in business with an evening of fashion, beauty, and lifestyle advice, at 5.30pm on Friday September 5.

‘For every illness, a herb grows nearby’

Thu, Aug 28, 2014

The Rub is an old herbal remedy that was in Dorrie Killeen’s grandmother’s family for generations.

Dorrie’s grandmother used to say, “For every illness, a herb grows nearby.”

Galway's finest food tour

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

Cork and Limerick have one and Dublin has at least three, so it was well overdue for Galway to have one also. A city rich in farming and fishing history, there are many more culinary treats to Galway than meet the eye. Sheena Dignam is more than happy to share these with us on her new food tour of the Galway Market and further afield, designed to best showcase some of our tasty treasures.

A new dining experience at An Púcán

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

On Friday June 27 this year, Galway saw the welcome return of one of its oldest bars in the form of the newly refurbished An Púcán, at 11 Forster Street just off Eyre Square. Keeping with tradition, it offers free music sessions every day, in addition to more than 150 remarkable whiskeys from Ireland and around the globe, craft beers, boutique wines, and now with a full extended food menu, An Púcán promises to be a very exciting addition to the east city dining scene.

Sunday lunch at The Ardilaun

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

The Camilaun Restaurant at The Ardilaun hotel is now offering a three course sit down lunch with tea or coffee to replace the traditional carvery lunch with soft, live, easy listening entertainment every Sunday also as an extra touch, a perfect way to while away a lazy afternoon, all for €25 per person, with extensive children’s menu also available. It is the perfect solution for celebrating a family get together, birthday, anniversary, or christening, with a free personalised birthday cake for parties of more than 10 guests.

The restaurant overlooks the hotel gardens so there is plenty of space for families to enjoy the outdoors this summer in the pleasant and safe surroundings of the grounds.

The Gunna Mórs

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

This area of the Claddagh was known as ‘the Big Grass’ or ‘the Green Grass’. It was the one open space of ground in the village and faced what is known as the Swamp today. It was very marshy, though some of it was used as a playground by local children, and it was also where the Claddagh Races took place.

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